Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Caged: Intimate Violence and the Search for Sovereignty at the Margins of the City
(2016-05-19)“Caged” is an ethnographic investigation of intimate partner violence in Usme, a peripheral district of Bogotá, Colombia, where 37% of women report having experienced physical violence by a partner and 80% report some form ... -
Calamitous knowledge: Disaster research in the British, French and Spanish Atlantic worlds, c.1605-1755
(2021-07-12)The period between 1605 and 1755 witnessed major transformations in the understanding of disasters in the Atlantic world. Rather than constituting stages in a secularising process, these developments consisted of changes ... -
Calamity’s Empire: Slavery, Scarcity, and the Political Economy of Provisioning in the British Caribbean, C. 1775-1834
(2016-08-26)This dissertation examines how practical and conceptual concerns over ensuring the basic needs of colonial subjects shaped the political economy of slavery and empire in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century ... -
Calibration Hardware and Methodology for Large Photometric Surveys
(2020-10-07)Photometric surveys such as the Dark Energy Survey (DES), the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), and Pan-STARRS are and will continue to be increasingly large sources of data for the astronomical community. Type Ia ... -
Cancer Genome Characterization with SNP Array and Whole-Exome Sequencing Analysis
(2013-02-25)Cancer, the uncontrolled growth of morphologically and genetically abnormal cells in the body, is a major worldwide public health problem and there is a great need for novel insights into this disease. The majority of ... -
The Cancer War(d): Onco-Nationhood in Post-Traumatic Rwanda
(2016-05-20)In Africa, the effects of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, rapidly expanding industrial and extractive economies, uncontrolled economic growth, environmental and lifestyle changes, and the rising age of populations with better access ... -
The Candidate Supply: How the Costs and Benefits of Running for Office Shape the Democratic Process
(2015-04-30)Dominant theories of U.S. elections focus on how candidates fluidly change positions based on the demands of voters. I argue instead that candidates' positions are more rigid. As a result, the supply of candidates, and ... -
Cannabidiol modulation of ion channels and neuronal excitability
(2023-05-09)Cannabidiol (CBD) is a non-intoxicating phytocannabinoid from Cannabis sativa. In human clinical trials and animal models, CBD shows anti-epileptic and analgesic efficacy. The goal of my thesis work was to explore how CBD ... -
Cantando con el diablo en la frontera: variaciones, voces y silencios en los llanos de Colombia y Venezuela
(2021-09-09)Esta disertación se centra en las narrativas sobre el duelo musical contra el diablo presentes en la producción literaria, oral y musical de la región fronteriza de los Llanos de Colombia y Venezuela. El análisis se centra ... -
Capped Plea Discounts and Prosecutorial Resources: A Multilateral Model of Plea Bargaining Under Asymmetric Information
(2017-07-14)This paper analyzes a multilateral model of plea bargaining with asymmetric information to investigate how prosecutorial resources affect the welfare implications of capped plea discounts. A plea discount is a reduction ... -
Capture-recapture Estimation for Conflict Data and Hierarchical Models for Program Impact Evaluation
(2014-06-06)A relatively recent increase in the popularity of evidence-based activism has created a higher demand for statisticians to work on human rights and economic development projects. The statistical challenges of revealing ... -
Carbon isotopic signatures of microbial trophic levels: insights from microbial mats
(2023-01-19)Microbial mat environments were likely widespread during the Proterozoic and early Paleozoic. As such, interpreting the carbon isotopic compositions (δ13C) of well-preserved organic matter from Proterozoic sediments requires ... -
Carbon Nanotubes for the Generation and Imaging of Interacting 1D States of Matter
(2014-06-06)Low-dimensional systems in condensed matter physics exhibit a rich array of correlated electronic phases. One-dimensional systems stand out in this regard. Electrons cannot avoid each other in 1D, enhancing the effects of ... -
Carbon Technocracy: East Asian Energy Regimes and the Industrial Modern, 1900-1957
(2014-06-06)Carbon Technocracy argues for the centrality of fossil fuel energy to the making of global industrial modernity and to the emergence of East Asian technocratic imaginaries in the first half of the twentieth century. It ... -
Cardiac Catheter Brace for Minimally Invasive Surgery
(2015-07-10)Cardiac disease is common and many cases require invasive surgical intervention. Most cardiac surgeries, for example, require stopping the patient’s heart. A percutaneous, beating heart, catheter-based system has been ... -
"Care of the Afflicted Flock": Pastoral Counseling, Psychiatry, and Disorderly Sexual Subjects
(2015-09-20)While scholars have argued that modern medical authority over sexuality stands in some relation to earlier religious discourse, modern religion and its new relationship to medicine are absent from these narratives. This ... -
Care Work in the Woodwork: Medicaid Home Care and Family Caregivers’ Health
(2021-09-16)Family caregivers provide the majority of eldercare in the United States, yet little is known about how eldercare policy affects their health. For several decades, research has shown that family caregivers experience ... -
The Careers of the Blind in Tokugawa Japan, 1603-1868
(2015-05-14)The blind deviate from bodily ideals and how we make sense of this difference matters. My dissertation examines the blind in Tokugawa Japan (1603–1868) to offer a contrasting perspective on disability from a non-Western ... -
The Cartographic Steppe: Mapping Environment and Ethnicity in Japan's Imperial Borderlands
(2016-09-09)This dissertation traces one of the origins of the autonomous region system in the People’s Republic of China to the Japanese imperial project by focusing on Inner Mongolia in the 1930s. Here, Japanese technocrats demarcated ... -
Carving Out the Space of Conformal Field Theories
(2012-12-19)We study the constraints of conformal symmetry and unitarity in Conformal Field Theories (CFTs). Crossing symmetry of four-point functions implies universal bounds on operator dimensions and three-point function coefficients. ...